About

Amy McMillan is an interdisciplinary Brighton based artist primarily working in ceramics and water based media.  Her hybrid figures embody a feminine experience, where the body is fluid, penetrated, gives birth and where time is cyclical rather than linear.

McMillan’s work is in the collection of Minerva, London.   Recent group exhibitions include :

Towner Ceramics Fair (June 23), The Earth Laughs In Flowers (Nov 22). The Affordable Art Fair (March 22), Life on Venus, The Tub Hackney (2021) and FBA Futures, Mall Galleries (2019). She has recently taken part in a 6 week Independant Ceramics Residency at Arquetopia, Puebla, Mexico (March 22).


A lot of my work is connected to my relationship with my maternal genealogy. I come from a line of deeply creative women whose trauma, early childhood life and lack of opportunities, both economical and structural meant that developing their own art practice wasn’t possible for them. Despite these challenges, they still managed to express their joy for colour, eccentricity and creative force through dress, storytelling, drawing, collage and obsessive object collecting. I go back to them, what has been carried down through generational trauma, to begin to understand their experience as the survivors, and mine as the processor.


I use storytelling, folklore, and mythology to cushion some of the darker themes in my work. I use gesture, pose and costume to communicate self-worth, expansion, release, and freedom.

Exhibitions/ Residencies:


Towner Ceramics Fair - Towner Gallery Eastbourne (June 2023)

Ghost Ship - (Group Show) The Fishing Quarter Gallery (Feb 2023)

The Earth Laughs in Flowers - (Group Show)  The regency Town House, Hove  (Nov 2022)

Arquetopia 6 week Ceramics Residency - Puebla, Mexico  (March 2022)

The Affordable Art Fair - (March 22)

Life on Venus - (Group Show)The Tub, Hackney (January 2021)

.     Athena Standards Residency - Athens, (1/4/2020-30/4/2020) Postponed

.     Gallery Collection - Darl-e and The Bear, Woodstock, Oxfordshire (01,06,19 - Present)

.     Permanent Collection (7 pieces) - Minerva, London (19/01/19 - Present)

.     Group Exhibition - (Group Show)FBA FUTURES, Mall Galleries, Pall Mall, London (08/01/19 - 19/01/19)

.     Group Exhibition - Falmouth Fine Art London, Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London (29/06/18 - 01/07/18)

.     Group Exhibition - Degree Show Falmouth 18, Cornwall (25/05/18 - 30/05/18)

·      Group Exhibition - The Collaborators, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall (27/10/17 — 06/0118) See artwork here

.     Artist in Residence - CAST Summer Residency, Helston, Cornwall (01/07/17 - 31/07/17)